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Jindal moves to strip food stamps from abusers (WalMart looters)
The (Baton Rouge, LA) Advocate ^ | November 6, 2013 | Michelle Millhollan

Posted on 11/06/2013 3:39:40 PM PST by abb

The Jindal administration announced late Wednesday that it is moving to strip food stamps from recipients who took advantage of a technical glitch last month to stock up on free groceries.

The announcement came after U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., pressured state officials to take action by taking away food stamp benefits and forming a task force with local prosecutors to bring criminal charges. Retailers lost money when they allowed food stamp recipients to leave their stores with groceries even though they could not check spending limits. When the transactions were processed later, thousands bounced back because recipients exceeded their food stamp balances.

Smartphone images of empty store shelves and bulging grocery carts at Wal-Marts in Springhill and Mansfield made national news.

The state Department of Children and Family Services said Wednesday that retailers across the state got 12,000 nonsufficient funds messages when the food stamp system came back online. The agency’s spokeswoman, Lindsey deBlieux, said investigations are ongoing to determine how many people took advantage. Retailers could have tried to process transactions multiple times. Recipients also could have made multiple purchases.

“We are in the business of helping vulnerable families, and we must protect the program for those who receive and use their benefits appropriately according to the law. We are looking at each case individually, addressing those recipients who are suspected of misrepresenting their eligibility for benefits or defrauding the system, and the Department will take initial action against the most egregious cases first,” the agency’s secretary, Suzy Sonnier, said in a prepared statement.

First time offenders stand to lose their food stamps for a year. Second time offenders face a 2-year suspension. Third time offenders will permanently lose their benefits.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: looters; louisiana; walmart
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Good for Jindal!!
1 posted on 11/06/2013 3:39:40 PM PST by abb
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They will scream to the boy in the white hut. and he will protect them


2 posted on 11/06/2013 3:44:24 PM PST by easternsky
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The wailing and gnashing of teeth about to begin from the commies.


3 posted on 11/06/2013 3:45:49 PM PST by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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This is good....but the Black KKK will be using the Racism Card on this one. Let’s hope Jindal and the GOP keep their spine


4 posted on 11/06/2013 3:46:08 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (2014: RINO Hunting Season)
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To: abb

This should not be difficult...exceed the limit, suspend/cancel the account.


5 posted on 11/06/2013 3:47:26 PM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: abb

Never pull any crap in a WalMart. There are cameras everywhere.


6 posted on 11/06/2013 3:47:33 PM PST by elkfersupper
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Never happen. I guarantee you.


7 posted on 11/06/2013 3:48:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Ted Cruz/Sarah Palin 2016)
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To: abb

Agree with all except in marginal cases. Some may not have known to the penny what they had available themselves. If the overage is under $100 and the transaction size isn’t out of line with past transactions on the same account, just deduct it from their next month’s money and say no more about it. But that begs the more fundamental question: Why are we giving people welfare long term anyway??


8 posted on 11/06/2013 3:49:30 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Just a rich racist Republican who hates minorities.


9 posted on 11/06/2013 3:50:34 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: notaliberal

It may be the first of a movement to start stripping benefits from the chronic entitlement crowd because the government is running out of “our” money because we are working less, earning less, or have lost our jobs altogether. If it is, pull up a chair and pass the popcorn...


10 posted on 11/06/2013 3:51:13 PM PST by jsanders2001
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Good for Jindal!!

Jindal must be a racist. Sarcasm off. I agree, good for him.

11 posted on 11/06/2013 4:15:27 PM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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I have mixed feelings about this. I may be the only one on this site that does.

I bought some things from Walmart today. I had no idea at the time the prices were a glitch. I thought they were putting stuff on clearance.

Some of the stuff was about 75% off. I bought a couple of big ticket items that I had no idea how much they really went for until the real prices came back online. They were more than 90% off.

So, if Walmart decides to ship these to me and I take them and pay for them is that much different than the EBT looters who Walmart opened up Carte Blanche conveyor belts with full knowledge of what they were doing??? The looters have a good idea how much is on their card. Walmart let them loot the store.

Walmart could have said no. If I owned Walmart stock I would be pissed that they let it happen.

Lots of people looted Walmart today all over the country with the programming error. Some knowingly..some not knowingly like me.

I bet some of those people who looted Walmart online today are some of the same people who say the Ebt people should be jailed.


12 posted on 11/06/2013 4:18:33 PM PST by RummyChick
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they knew what they were doing was wrong... period

they just didn’t care

jail every one of them


13 posted on 11/06/2013 4:20:55 PM PST by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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Oh Bobby,Bobby,Bobby! I wish this would happen but you know the just-us-brothers and their boy in the White Hut and Holder wont let you do what is right and just!


14 posted on 11/06/2013 4:27:04 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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FINALLY!!!!!!!!!


15 posted on 11/06/2013 4:28:52 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Walmart let them take the grocery items in lieu of them rioting and looting all the *other* stuff in the store as well.


16 posted on 11/06/2013 4:29:35 PM PST by Black Agnes
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Good freaking grief!! You are WAY smarter than your post.


17 posted on 11/06/2013 4:30:34 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RummyChick

I saw a thread about this earlier, I’ll try to find it.


18 posted on 11/06/2013 4:34:46 PM PST by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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Sorry, you didn't notice that the 70 inch plasma TV wasn't REALLY $75?

C'mon.

19 posted on 11/06/2013 4:42:21 PM PST by boop (I had no IDEA I'd be paying for Obamacare. I thought it would be a rich guy.)
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Big deal so they pull one of the looters EBT card they probably have half a dozen to chose from using phoney names or stolen id’s.


20 posted on 11/06/2013 4:52:23 PM PST by bikerman (Obama! if his lips are moving he's lying.)
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